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this is an old industrial city with an unemployment rate around 13% and income that struggled to break $30,000 a year. similarly, looking at $100,000 a year in additional spending for the storm water management. ithey've included a pilot progrm to reduce phosphorus in the waterway of that it is about $111 million up front. a price tag which is borne by the panel and would be felt tremendously by the local business. this around and towns are both looking at the bills of about 75 million to 30 million respectively in the program. when i talk to local officials and businesses, they want -- they have a genuine desire to be compliant. they are bringing up their children and grandchildren in the neighborhood to see the value of clean air and water. they are concerned about the contamination, pollution and other hazards and how baby caddick on their hometown and they know that the cost of the savings that they are stuck. so i wanted to ask you in your opinion in the federal government, not just to the epa that the government to give to the strapped municipalities to go on. i have of course un
this is an old industrial city with an unemployment rate around 13% and income that struggled to break $30,000 a year. similarly, looking at $100,000 a year in additional spending for the storm water management. ithey've included a pilot progrm to reduce phosphorus in the waterway of that it is about $111 million up front. a price tag which is borne by the panel and would be felt tremendously by the local business. this around and towns are both looking at the bills of about 75 million to 30...
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born this day in the city of david, a savior, which is christ the lord. off they went to find him in the manger. this may be an old story but a mighty one to grasp. it takes great faith, it takes true patience, much like the search for the perfect president itself. we come to recognize it is not so much about the telling of the story as it is about the serving of the story. what emerges is a spirit of giving and a message of hope for all seasons. glory to god in the highest and on earth, peace and goodwill toward men. that in the words of a great philosopher is what christmas is all about, charlie brown. so now, it is time to light the tree so we can all go back inside before everyone gets too cold. this year, our special tree lighting expert is a first grader in colville, washington. ladies and gentlemen, escorted by the u.s. capitol police chief, please join me in welcoming giovanni gainer. [applause] so, you may not know this, but we require all of our tree lighters to have some special qualifications. now, as i understand it, when you grow up, you wan
born this day in the city of david, a savior, which is christ the lord. off they went to find him in the manger. this may be an old story but a mighty one to grasp. it takes great faith, it takes true patience, much like the search for the perfect president itself. we come to recognize it is not so much about the telling of the story as it is about the serving of the story. what emerges is a spirit of giving and a message of hope for all seasons. glory to god in the highest and on earth, peace...
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michael scott was accused in a homicide case in salt lake city. there was no dna evidence in a homicide case. he was identified ultimately through a fingerprint on a piece of duct tape. but he was also accused of the rate of 214-year-old girls in salt lake city. there were semen samples from the rape so the question was does the dna from the evidentiary area sample matched the suspect. so come at that time the crime lab was using what are called rflp. the same principles i just showed you a plight here. so, what we have loaded into this gel we have the victims dna and we have the defendant and then we have three samples from the evidentiary area sample loaded at different concentrations. here is the highest concentration, so here is the pattern in the defendant and here's the pattern in the evident cheery sample. is this a match or not? what do you think? i see some heads nodding. and this was by the criteria established at the time a match. so is this sufficient to put him in jail? to convict him? probably not because we have to ask the question
michael scott was accused in a homicide case in salt lake city. there was no dna evidence in a homicide case. he was identified ultimately through a fingerprint on a piece of duct tape. but he was also accused of the rate of 214-year-old girls in salt lake city. there were semen samples from the rape so the question was does the dna from the evidentiary area sample matched the suspect. so come at that time the crime lab was using what are called rflp. the same principles i just showed you a...
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like many cities around the country has a rapidly developing community and we like most of the operators anticipate in the local restaurant entities of various partners often family members. though we consider each operation to be a small-business many are discovering for the purpose of the healthcare law must be considered one of the playeemployerto the aggregation. the application of these aggregation rules is already having an impact on the small businesses consuming valuable time and resources to decipher. each of less than 50 full-time equivalent employees. two are highly seasonal businesses and may not be considered for the calendar month and uncontrollable factors such as whether or not the legislature is in session and the performance of the sports and academic calendars related to the surrounding universities. based on my understanding of the aggregation rules would be considered as one employer under the law but is an applicable large employer. it would operate on the thin margins to manage the labor cost very closely to remain viable. austin texas remains one of the strongest
like many cities around the country has a rapidly developing community and we like most of the operators anticipate in the local restaurant entities of various partners often family members. though we consider each operation to be a small-business many are discovering for the purpose of the healthcare law must be considered one of the playeemployerto the aggregation. the application of these aggregation rules is already having an impact on the small businesses consuming valuable time and...
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rially from catholic relief services, we were with him the entire day, when we were in the devastated city, our delegation visited a san ticks kit distry biewx and received a briefing is a medical doctor in my own state of new jersey. we met with numerous survivors who told us heart breaking story. somehow radiated a calm, and inner peace. one man told us how his father had drowned in only a few feet from where we stood. and he carried many water-logged dead bodies to a mass grave. he said he nearly collapsed emotionally; however, whenly carried a lifeless body of a 3-year-old girl. he said had he just broke down. he was overwhelmed. and he felt he could continue no more. amazingly, a few days later, there he was determined to rebuild and overcome. it was full of faith. that resiliency was best summed up by archbishop who said, and i quote, the typhoon was the strongest in the world. but our faith in the lord is even stronger. no calamity or natural devastates can quench the fire of our hope. the philippine soul is stronger than yo lane data. our plane was diverted to seek the helicopter t
rially from catholic relief services, we were with him the entire day, when we were in the devastated city, our delegation visited a san ticks kit distry biewx and received a briefing is a medical doctor in my own state of new jersey. we met with numerous survivors who told us heart breaking story. somehow radiated a calm, and inner peace. one man told us how his father had drowned in only a few feet from where we stood. and he carried many water-logged dead bodies to a mass grave. he said he...
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. >> there is with a similar bent in the late '80s when city corps set aside several billions of dollars against potential losses in its portfolio of country loans. that gave it the largest loss ever registered by a u.s. corporation that quarter but its share price went up and the reason was it sort of put a line under the loss it is was willing to take and remobilize part of that portfolio. there was a lot in resolving uncertainty which i think drives people to settle than string out the litigation. >> [inaudible] >> this is a question for another friend, dick hearing. -- herring. on the swap changes you discussed, interesting question. are we to understand that, that the proposal is that the collateral delivered at some point against the adverse mark-to-market of a swap counterparty would become a preference item as in bankruptcy and would be taken away from the holder of that collateral? is that how to understand this proposal? >> no. i probably explained it badly you about the idea is to avoid a race to seize assets of a bank in resolution while supposedly transformed into a bridge b
. >> there is with a similar bent in the late '80s when city corps set aside several billions of dollars against potential losses in its portfolio of country loans. that gave it the largest loss ever registered by a u.s. corporation that quarter but its share price went up and the reason was it sort of put a line under the loss it is was willing to take and remobilize part of that portfolio. there was a lot in resolving uncertainty which i think drives people to settle than string out the...
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what time and cities. i want to get to the hydraulic infrastructuring study you are engaged in. i have concerns about it especially the study dined and some of the goal of the study. as e discussed in this committee previously with other witnesses. this idea of the epa search forking what is possible what is probably is problematic i think from a real scientific standpoint. because one of the primary goal of the study stated primary goal of the study is to answer questions like what are the possible impact of hydraulic fracking on -- drinking water resources. the science advisory board shares this concern as women. one expert commented, quote, there's no risk assessment included in epa's research effort. thus, the reader have no sense of how risky any operation may be and ultimately impacting drinking water. it's also a significant limitation of the work, end quote. is a mere possibility of an event occurring sufficient to justify regulatory action in your find. >> i think this is pure lay scientific research project. we understand the potential implication. it's not a regulator
what time and cities. i want to get to the hydraulic infrastructuring study you are engaged in. i have concerns about it especially the study dined and some of the goal of the study. as e discussed in this committee previously with other witnesses. this idea of the epa search forking what is possible what is probably is problematic i think from a real scientific standpoint. because one of the primary goal of the study stated primary goal of the study is to answer questions like what are the...
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in this city today, what all of you have to do every section is forge principle compromise, the word compromise, back in the dale, my father's time, that was an act of statesmanship. today it's a act of betrayal. if you don't work with your party 100% of the time, you're ostracized, there's something wrong with you. you can see this on cable tv and a variety of other things. i'll finish by recounting words that lyndon johnson, a master legislator, said once. he grew up poor in the hill country in texas. and his family couldn't always take for granted that they were going to have enough to keep the roof over their head or keep food on the table. o this is the thought i'll leave you with. jobson once said any man not willing to compromise, well, that man never went to bed hungry. he said, you know, he said any man who is not willing to settle for half a loaf, well, that man never went to bed hungry. that's exactly right. the american people expect us to be problem solvers and practical solution providers, not happen right now. we're too intent on taking an all or nothing approach which
in this city today, what all of you have to do every section is forge principle compromise, the word compromise, back in the dale, my father's time, that was an act of statesmanship. today it's a act of betrayal. if you don't work with your party 100% of the time, you're ostracized, there's something wrong with you. you can see this on cable tv and a variety of other things. i'll finish by recounting words that lyndon johnson, a master legislator, said once. he grew up poor in the hill country...
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oklahoma city occurred in 1995. raising all kinds of other questions about intelligence and the relationship of those who collected intelligence abroad and those who collected it at home, how it should be shared, what should be done. meanwhile, they were trying to reserve the position as a true democrat small z in russia against opponents who wanted a more author authoritarian futurr going back to communism or forward with a kind of ultranationalism that would recreate in their own mind a 20th and 21st century version of a russian empire. meanwhile, we were seeing the emergence of terrorism justified by islamic politics and certain interpretation of religions. we already had the first world trade center bombing in 1993, remember, and the people hurt in bosnia were muslims. it was a source of concern to people all across the word. i received calls from both the pope and the king of saudi arabia asking me to intervene in bosnia. i wondered where that was the first time they had been on the same side of an issue. dick
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process because our process, unlike other systems, that would explode into the streets of paris and other cities, we have a type of constitutional implosion. we direct those pressures to the center of congress and from that we take disparate factional interests and return them to majoritarian compromise. >> keep going down the list of instances where you think he has overstepped. >> the other two that come out to me is really the issue of the $454 million in the prevention fund issue for the federal health care insurance exchange. and also the 700 billion for the state exchanges. then finally the, essentially the subsidies for congressional employees which is less significant than those other ones. what bothers me about those last examples is that it goes directly to the the power of the purse and we have seen over and and over again courts saying don't worry, you have the power of the purse. this administration is now directly challenging that and saying, we can take money that was dedicated for one purpose and give it to an unspecified, unallowed, disallowed purpose. that challenges the very r
process because our process, unlike other systems, that would explode into the streets of paris and other cities, we have a type of constitutional implosion. we direct those pressures to the center of congress and from that we take disparate factional interests and return them to majoritarian compromise. >> keep going down the list of instances where you think he has overstepped. >> the other two that come out to me is really the issue of the $454 million in the prevention fund...
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but the institution itself depends on the idea that it is not just take when cities of what nine people happened to be on the supreme court to determine the meaning of the constitution. >> let's get into the nitty-gritty of light you don't have press credentials at the supreme court. the only way that lyle denniston gets in the courtroom is through his relationship with wbur. could you describe your efforts to get press credentials and why that apparently has been unsuccessful? >> sure. and this is another instance in which the court itself is relatively opaque. they have been thinking about this for a while. the history of this is that the blog originally asked to be credentialed in the supreme court. we were told that we need to have a senate press credential. the senate would not credential us because we were lawyers. and it took us a while to convince them that we worked the kind of lawyers that were trying to lobby the senate. i think to be perfectly honest, that the tipping point for us getting a senate press credential was the peabody. in the wake of the peabody, it became unsust
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i would talk about the society, or a city killer? probably not. on the other hand, the lone wolf -- this is true for all weapons of mass destruction scenarios or all masculine scenarios. the lone wolf terrorist operates in essentially a vacuum but in terms of supervision, in terms of restrictions or limitations, in terms of any kind of filter on what is or isn't acceptable. the true lone wolf terrorist is only answerable to himself or herself. and, therefore, by the way that means that many of the traditional deterrent tactics that we use as governments, as militaries, as law-enforcement organizations, short of identifying and capturing the would be attacker, are essential not going to have very much about. the lone wolf operates without committees, without worrying about going before an appropriate board of any kind. he does what he can do when he wants to do it. he does it to his timetable. the one that -- high explosives fall well within the universe. that goes without saying. the one that is probably i think of the most significant concern in
i would talk about the society, or a city killer? probably not. on the other hand, the lone wolf -- this is true for all weapons of mass destruction scenarios or all masculine scenarios. the lone wolf terrorist operates in essentially a vacuum but in terms of supervision, in terms of restrictions or limitations, in terms of any kind of filter on what is or isn't acceptable. the true lone wolf terrorist is only answerable to himself or herself. and, therefore, by the way that means that many of...
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i represent a district in queens in new york city were a lot of employers have not always done the right thing like you ms. baker and have not provided insurance to their employees and have taken many employees around the country who don't speak english and are not familiar with the rules. statistics have shown that on sunday and monday alone 29,000 people signed up for the new health care law on the web site after two days and i was just wondering what advice could you have given or would you give to a lot of these employees were small business employers who have not provided insurance in the past? and anyone can answer. >> shirt. we like to consider ourselves a good employer and we have provided insurance in the past. the nature is the cost of insurance has risen drastically in last few years and most of the young people who are healthy simply drop off the plan which makes the costs go up even more. so we have got a situation where people are willing to pay for insurance despite the fact that we are continuing to increase our contribution and it's become a situation and i only know fro
i represent a district in queens in new york city were a lot of employers have not always done the right thing like you ms. baker and have not provided insurance to their employees and have taken many employees around the country who don't speak english and are not familiar with the rules. statistics have shown that on sunday and monday alone 29,000 people signed up for the new health care law on the web site after two days and i was just wondering what advice could you have given or would you...
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in peak tech school that ibm new york city, the colleges in new york city, the new york city department of education, and our union actually put together. it got a lot of attention because the president mentioned it in the state of the union, than the president went to see it, but this is a fantastic school. ibm haschool where back-mapped from what the entry position, the skills required for the interposition in ibm is, and we have put a six-year program together that also is aligned with the common core critical thinking, and every body, you go to the school, everybody loves it. so it is actually helping re- envision what career tech ed should look like in this new economy, and frankly, there is a lot of really great career tech ed schools throughout the country. toledo has one that is a terrific school, that has been aligned with gm. aviation high school in new york city, aligned with the aviation industry. transit tech in new york city. so i think there is some steam and a headwind that could actually push perkins through the gate, but it has to be formulaic. meaning we have to have
in peak tech school that ibm new york city, the colleges in new york city, the new york city department of education, and our union actually put together. it got a lot of attention because the president mentioned it in the state of the union, than the president went to see it, but this is a fantastic school. ibm haschool where back-mapped from what the entry position, the skills required for the interposition in ibm is, and we have put a six-year program together that also is aligned with the...
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we need to keep up the fights in the cities. and keep pursuing breakthroughs. i am pleased to announce research at nih. we will redirect a $100 million into the project because the united states should be at the forefront into how to put hiv into long-term remission or eliminate it completely. >> the president earlier this week as you know discussing additional funding for aids research. how close are we to finding a cure for aids? >> well, i think you have to look at the situation of a cure. it is impossible to predict how far we are away. people are confused with ending the aids epidemic and getting people on treatment. curing is a sustained remission without the need for therapy. that is a goal that is not going to be easy. but one of things you don't want to get confused with is even though we don't have a cure, the advances that have been made by the therapy is nothing short of breath-taking. in the early 1980s, when i started taking care of aids patients, after the discovery of the disease, the survival rate was 6-8 months and 50% of patients were dead wi
we need to keep up the fights in the cities. and keep pursuing breakthroughs. i am pleased to announce research at nih. we will redirect a $100 million into the project because the united states should be at the forefront into how to put hiv into long-term remission or eliminate it completely. >> the president earlier this week as you know discussing additional funding for aids research. how close are we to finding a cure for aids? >> well, i think you have to look at the situation...
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can you imagine it would mean if there is a change american city or the renal. it would be a major breakthrough . there are enemies who continue don't want the process to have a good ending for various reasons. some people think that we are legitimizing the farc. if they think we can kill the last of the guerrilla we would take another 50 years in order to do that. the way to end a sitting down and negotiating a final agreement. that's with we're trying to go. and some people are saying that we are giving in to the finishing arc or that we are giving in to the castro regime. this is nonsense. we're not negotiating the economic model. it doesn't negotiating our political institutions. we're not negotiating our democratic presence. s. we are simply negotiating transition and the violence and pursuit of -- that's what we're negotiating. and today if you ask me how optimistic i i am, i continue to say i'm cautiously optimistic. it's a very complex process. 50 years of war. you don't resolve in 50 weeks in conversations. and but i am today more optimistic with the pr
can you imagine it would mean if there is a change american city or the renal. it would be a major breakthrough . there are enemies who continue don't want the process to have a good ending for various reasons. some people think that we are legitimizing the farc. if they think we can kill the last of the guerrilla we would take another 50 years in order to do that. the way to end a sitting down and negotiating a final agreement. that's with we're trying to go. and some people are saying that we...
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in the nature of the demand for power, the aging parts of the grid and increased equity in the tent city of storm related disruptions being considered in ferc's reliability efforts to? >> well, thank you. that's a big question. i guess there's at least two different parts of the. one is the actual reliability standards to make sure that the transmission asset owners have the accountability over the refurbishment of their lines so that they operate properly in order to meet the standards. but secondly, we were talking about order 1000 mission planning, a reference was made to transmission rates. that's all a part of making sure that the structures are in place so that the companies can invest the money they need to replace aging infrastructure. and as you know, i am probably with some of the aged resources in the region. it wasn't early part of the country to electrifying. >> thank you. thank you very much. capacity market rose to the pjm area and in, threaten to continue the belly of load serving entities to sell supply their own capacity resources to serve their own loads. this problem
in the nature of the demand for power, the aging parts of the grid and increased equity in the tent city of storm related disruptions being considered in ferc's reliability efforts to? >> well, thank you. that's a big question. i guess there's at least two different parts of the. one is the actual reliability standards to make sure that the transmission asset owners have the accountability over the refurbishment of their lines so that they operate properly in order to meet the standards....
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until the problem gets fixed we're losing the good faith of the city of veterans every year. thank you, i'll be happy to take questions. >> thank you. there's less than five minutes left we're going have to go in to recess and be back half hour to 40 minutes. so the committee stands in recess. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] recessing the hearing briefly coverage of the subcommittee will continue when members get back from voting on the house floor. and when we return, they'll pick up hearing with more testimony from legal advocates. and processing complicated veterans disability claims. three panels in all are scheduled for this afternoon. some news of the associated press writes that the family of a florida woman killed during the shooting at the washington navy yard is the first to file lawsuit against the federal government and contractors. claiming they ignored red flags about the killers'. and a suit named the navy the department of veteran affair, and two deafen contractors as the defendant. and is seeking at least $37.7 million. until the committee
until the problem gets fixed we're losing the good faith of the city of veterans every year. thank you, i'll be happy to take questions. >> thank you. there's less than five minutes left we're going have to go in to recess and be back half hour to 40 minutes. so the committee stands in recess. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] recessing the hearing briefly coverage of the subcommittee will continue when members get back from voting on the house floor. and when we return,...
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fall of saigon and you'll remember the scene of the helicopters leaving the american embassy as the city fell. very continuing lots of history unfolding. >> historically accelerated in the two and a half years. by no means, all of -- >> on a personal front a couple of months after they came to office, mrs. ford discovered she had breast cancer. >> yeah. this was, you know, in some ways this was the moment the indelible moment she, i think, first impressed her on the american people. or maybe the whole ford family. it is really hard 40 years later to conceive the degree to which people didn't talk about this disease. euphemism were deployed. people didn't die of breast cancer. they died of a wasting illness. what mrs. ford did was to bring this out in the open, and overnight transformed the way women in particular looked at the disease. for her, it was also a lesson, i mean, she had it was her first -- that a first lady could have. by being herself. by shining the light on a dark corner. by educating the public. >> next up we'll listen to president ford himself announcing the result of he
fall of saigon and you'll remember the scene of the helicopters leaving the american embassy as the city fell. very continuing lots of history unfolding. >> historically accelerated in the two and a half years. by no means, all of -- >> on a personal front a couple of months after they came to office, mrs. ford discovered she had breast cancer. >> yeah. this was, you know, in some ways this was the moment the indelible moment she, i think, first impressed her on the american...
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being hit hardest including gay and bisexual men, latinos mericans and and keep up the fight in our cities including washington, diagnosis has reduced infections by nearly half. e're going to keep pursuing scientific breakthroughs. today i'm pleased to announce he new initiative at the national institute of health about a cure. $100 million to evelop a new generation of therapies. because the united states should be at the fore front of new to tut in and how long term remission without lifelong therapies or better yet eliminate it completely. the president earlier this week discussing additional funding for aids research. how close are we for finding a aids?or >> i think you have to look at he situation of a cure realistically and impossible to predict how far we're away from that. eople sometimes get confused between the difference of ending the aids pandemic and getting everyone who needs to be on treatment on treatment to the point where they can live a normal life and curing, curing means that you put someone into sustained remission without the need for therapy essentially indefinitel
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and resolve to protect the public from everton facing the prospect of lost home, lost jobs or lost cities caused by financial system run amok. ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming secretary lew. [applause] >> thank you very much, sheila, for the very kind introduction, and for all the work that you do to advance the cause of financial reform. i'd like to thank you for hosting me here this morning and also for the work that you do everyday, so many important public policies. i'd like to spend a few minutes today discussing how far we've come to repair the weaknesses which shook our financial system to its core just a few years ago. the progress we've made reshaped and our financial architecture and what we need to do to remain vigilant to make sure our financial system is safe in the future. five years ago to train the economy was reeling from a devastating financial crisis that helped trigger the worst recession since the great depression. our businesses were shedding more than 700,000 jobs a month. our economy was shrinking at an 8.3% annual rate. credit was frozen. our auto
and resolve to protect the public from everton facing the prospect of lost home, lost jobs or lost cities caused by financial system run amok. ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming secretary lew. [applause] >> thank you very much, sheila, for the very kind introduction, and for all the work that you do to advance the cause of financial reform. i'd like to thank you for hosting me here this morning and also for the work that you do everyday, so many important public policies....
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during his tenure, he prided himself on balancing the budget and investing in the city's future. deit year after year. amazingly, public service was his third career. he began his life as a iron worker. a member of the united iron workers. he also worked as a shoemaker. in 1970, he moved to decoin with his wife wanda and his three kids. he brought together local shareholders and took control of a struggling local bank. he converted it into one of the soundest, most profitable banks in southern illinois. but it was john redenour's third career, his work as mayor of decoin, that really distinguished his public service. as a mayor, as i mentioned, he was a fiscal conservative but he was also a person who believed in giving people a chance. john redenour was a proud democrat. in fact, he was the former chairman of the illinois democratic party chairs. he rode on air force one with president jimmy carter and he had a good relationship with presidents, including president obama. the politicians whose careers he helped, launch or advanced could have filled a stadium, but he knew there a
during his tenure, he prided himself on balancing the budget and investing in the city's future. deit year after year. amazingly, public service was his third career. he began his life as a iron worker. a member of the united iron workers. he also worked as a shoemaker. in 1970, he moved to decoin with his wife wanda and his three kids. he brought together local shareholders and took control of a struggling local bank. he converted it into one of the soundest, most profitable banks in southern...
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process because our process, unlike other systems, that would explode into the streets of paris and other cities, we have a type of constitutional implosion. we direct those pressures to the center of congress and from that we take disparate factional interests and return them to majoritarian compromise. >> keep going down the list of
process because our process, unlike other systems, that would explode into the streets of paris and other cities, we have a type of constitutional implosion. we direct those pressures to the center of congress and from that we take disparate factional interests and return them to majoritarian compromise. >> keep going down the list of
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it's obviously a benefit to new york and the city of new york as obviously as was our concern. and given the great benefits of the project i really believe that it's important that it is implemented in a timely manner. so my only question is really in our effort to plan for a post-indian point new york, i'm sure that we have to make sure that we have sufficiently reliable, safe energy to replace the nuclear facility here because when some of us said that it should be closed, people came back with well, what are you going to do to replace it? i believe the champlain hudson power express line provides a portion of that and i would like to hear from any of you regarding the status of the project. madam chair. >> thank you, mr. congressman. i believe about a year ago within the past year, ferc issued an order a pretty market-based rates for the champlain hudson power express line. no one sought rehearing of that order so its final so we did the rate making. i believe the citing of the line is being done in new york state, as i don't think with anything open on the line right now bu
it's obviously a benefit to new york and the city of new york as obviously as was our concern. and given the great benefits of the project i really believe that it's important that it is implemented in a timely manner. so my only question is really in our effort to plan for a post-indian point new york, i'm sure that we have to make sure that we have sufficiently reliable, safe energy to replace the nuclear facility here because when some of us said that it should be closed, people came back...